Brittney Griner being released from a Russian prison is a good thing. We can have other complaints. We can and should want to see other Americans released from foreign prisons… but it is a good thing. Celebrate it. Don’t be a fucking douche.
@davebassili If it were me, I’d hope they would trade whoever to get me home. Realistically, you can’t always trade whoever. But the option was to leave her incarcerated. That dude Yaroshenko who they traded for Trevor Reed was a cocaine smuggler.
@davebassili The thing about arms dealers and drug dealers is just because one gets locked away, the market for the product does not go away. There is a vacuum that eventually gets filled by some other asshole. That’s not to say bad dudes don’t deserve to be punished. However…
@davebassili Incarcerating them does very little in terms of preventing the crimes from happening. In that regard, I’m not so worried about those kinds of folks remaining imprisoned. I am more concerned with actual deterrence than retributivism for moral wrongs.
@davebassili Oh, and I forgot to add, ideally I wish Paul Whelan would have come home as well.